US 10,771,352 B2 · Method and system for prioritizing network services

Abstract

A method, system and computer program product of prioritizing network services is provided. Such prioritization may include a better level of service, more timely system response and/or preferential treatment of traffic. In an embodiment, prioritization is controlled by defining modes and levels of prioritization typically based on criteria, such as the value of a transaction, the standing of a user, or the type of transaction. Prioritization can also be established, for example, for a length of time or for a given transaction. The modes of prioritization may include remapping TCP ports to which a communication is directed, remapping uniform resource locators and/or Internet Protocol addresses to which a communication is directed and/or tagging communications with quality of service information. The levels of prioritization define the type(s) of priority service offered to a user, such as timeliness of system response and preference of traffic treatment, and may be arbitrarily defined.

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Dependent claims

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including computer program code to cause a computer system to manage access to a server, the server access including one or more associated communications traffic connections, and the computer program code configured to cause the computer system to at least:

determine, based on a data structure at a computer of a source or on information derived from the data structure, whether the communications traffic connection(s) with the source should receive prioritization, wherein the data structure is separate than an Internet Protocol (IP) address of a computer of the source with which the communication traffic connection(s) is made;
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responsive to determination that the communications traffic connection(s) with the source receive prioritization, apply a mode of prioritization to communications traffic associated with that server access and originating from the source in the communications traffic connection(s), the mode of prioritization comprising denying or delaying one or more communications traffic connections in favor of the communications traffic associated with the server access.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for managing an access to an accessed server, the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising:

computer program code to cause a computer system to cause installation of a data structure at a computer of a source, the accessed server configured to have one or more communications traffic connection(s) with the source and receive communications traffic from the source, wherein the data structure is separate than an Internet Protocol (IP) address of a computer of the source with which the communication traffic connection(s) is made;
and
computer program code to cause the computer system to determine whether the communications traffic associated with the server access should receive prioritization and apply a mode of prioritization, based on data associated with the data structure, to the communications traffic associated with the server access and originating from the source in the communications traffic connection(s), the mode of prioritization comprising denying or delaying one or more communications traffic connections in favor of the communications traffic associated with the server access.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Method and system for prioritizing network services

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